Kieffer Moore has admitted he has a point to prove after being allowed to leave Ipswich Town for Barnsley.

Ipswich Town signed Kieffer Moore for £20k from Forest Green Rovers and have sold him to Barnsley for £750k a year later. Photo: James Ager

Moore, who made 11 substitute appearances for the Blues totalling just 146 minutes, joined Championship rivals Barnsley on Monday for a fee believed to be close to £750,000. His former club Forest Green are due a small sell-on clause, believed to be 10 per cent of the profit made following his £20,000 move to Portman Road a year ago.

He scored 13 goals during a highly productive loan spell with Rotherham, which sparked a League One bidding war, and is now looking to make the grade at Championship level after being allowed to leave Portman Road.

“You have to take the positives out of everything but there’s nothing better than showing someone they were wrong about you and showing them you can do it if you work hard enough.”

The Blues recalled Moore from his loan spell at Rotherham and he returned to train with the club last week, with McCarthy insisting the striker’s head was not in the right place as clubs scrambled to try and sign him.

“I do think, after he trained with us yesterday, that his head’s not really here. That’s for certain,” McCarthy said last Friday.